I was being annoying to myself yet again. I wanted a WordPress loop to show only a single paragraph and a ‘read more’ link. No, I do not want to use the <!--more--> tag. I know there are a couple of plugin that does this and more, I don’t one to use any plugin either.

There are several cloud platform for Ruby on Rails, Engine Yard and Heroku being the two popular ones. But what about PHP? looks like a bunch of cloud service for PHP is popping up, and Orchestra.io is one of them. Going to try it out when I have the time.

If I were to share codes here, this website needs syntax highlighting. There are a lot of code syntax highlighting plugin for WordPress, but none of it has the look an feel that I want. Until of course when I found this google-code-prettify. It’s a Javascript module and CSS file that allows syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an html page.

The main reason it that the styles could be easily customizable via a CSS file, and that someone already made a Sunburst theme, looks similar to the curent theme I am using on my Textmate.

Of course I should have looked for the WordPress plugin first but I didn’t. I ended up embedding it into this theme.